Ways to approach Manhattan

[da]

Oh, and before this wine totally puts me under the table:

The best way ever to approach Manhattan, if you can fenangle it, is in a window seat, as the pilot goes all the way down the west side of the island, around the tip, and most of the way up the east side toward LaGuardia. F'ing awesome view. I'm surprised we could get so close. The capper for me wasn't flying over Shea Stadium or the '67 World's Fair site or near the Empire State Building or the UN building... it was realizing that I could pick out my Grandma Esther's old apartment building on the Upper East Side. (one of two tall buildings one block in and two blocks down from Gracie Mansion, just near the top of Roosevelt Island). [here.]

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[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Dang. What a seriously cool name for a bridge into NYC. If I knew that bridge's name, I'd forgotten it. But yes, I do like that approach too. ;)

Also, it's cool how the Greyhound bus sort of seems to take a hidden exit off the freeway to get to Penn Station.
... "Quick! to the greyhound-cave, greyhound-man!"